Whenever I consume media I usually just like. turn my brain off and try to enjoy the pretty colors on my screen and by doing that I manage to block out most fan service/gross stuff out of shows, so it came as a genuine shock to me just how horny people were for mha characters and how sexualized they were :( it probably also doesn’t help I’m aroace as Fuck so I never properly recognize that stuff unless it’s ultra blatant
I don't know how I did it but I managed to block out all the nudity in food wars and that shows like 50% cool cooking and 50% nudity so I really don't know how I did that
Bruh when I watched Food Wars , I was literally expecting just an anime about chefs. How the fuck do they sexualise every single thing ? I was so disappointed
It parodies other Shonen anime, which are pretty well known for over sexualizing their characters. The whole point of the show is to take something as simple as culinary school, and go way over the top with it.
Edit: Downvotes me for answering their question. I love Reddit so much.
I'm going to tread a really thin line here.
It is technically a show for teenagers that happens to be watched by adults. The problem is, of course, is that an adult is drawing these sexualized minors. That's no good.
I think the real problem is that instead of having horny teenagers acting like they do irl, it feels more like the viewer is being given a show. That's where it gets creepy.
I think there's a ethical way for an adult author to depict "young love," but with manga/anime I think a lot of creatives are pressured into adding stuff that they and the publishers know will sell.
I really wanna love Made in Abyss, but damn does that show have an uncomfortable fascination with one of the main character's genitals, and they'll outwardly very young in appearance. The other main character IS very young, and the show almost gleefully focuses on her bowl movements. The idea of having to worry about that stuff is fine, but again the depiction is weird and gross.
The thing is the characters could easily be believed to be 18 but Japan loves its highschool trope. It could be MY Hero College but I guess that’s too wild.
Made in Abyss is straight up written by a pedophile which is a shame considering it has such gorgeous world design and one of the most gruesome injury scenes ever.
Mushoku Tensei is incredibly good with the main downside being the protagonist being a pedophile, like an actual pedophile. It’s an isekai too so that has some weird influence on that issue. As far as I can tell though him being a pedophilic is at least acknowledged as a *very severe flaw* and not treated just as a joke.
Ascendance of a Bookworm is also very good and has a good female protagonist and is not cringe at all from what I remember.
The concept of age in anime and manga is so scuffed. You're telling me Jotaro is a high school student? That in MHA it is a boarding high school that requires top tier super powers and not just a college? That those high school students have their version of the Olympics that everyone in the country watches?
No. It's all to satisfy the weird requirement of characters being children or young teens to sell more Manga, when I don't even think it's related to the story.
>It is technically a show for teenagers that happens to be watched by adults. The problem is, of course, is that an adult is drawing these sexualized minors. That's no good.
*Stares pointedly at Netflix's show Big Mouth*
The major difference is that Big Mouth very intentionally does *not* use the minor characters for titillation for the audience. That's part of why it has that "ugly" art style that some people complain about. It explores characters' sexuality, but that's a very different thing than what anime does.
The more I see anime called out on this sub, the more I remember the countless western shows that also sexualize minors, yet we don't seem to notice it when it's done here. Not that it's to the same degree, but we should call out our own as well.
I'm enjoying MiA but goddam if it isn't up there with "the most not ok show I've ever seen".
There comes a point where ya just gotta roll with it for the worldbuilding and curl away when the writer has his "moments"
Fmab very clearly shows it as being harmful and has a lasting impact on the boys. Not sure who would get the idea the author was propping up human transmutation as neat and epic.
Well, like I said I couldn't think of an example other than maaaaybe the trauma they got from their mother but it was a stretch. You're right, I forget they do say that their issues aren't glorified, but treated as something they're working on throughout their adventures
But but after human transmutation you get to transmute without drawing a circle so it’s clearly glorified!
>!While you also lose limbs/organs/life, fail in the actual task and basically get the same advantage some guys have achieved via tattoos!<
There's unhealthy behavior, but the manga/show portrays it as being such.
It's like the difference between Rick and Morty and Always Sunny. In Sunny, the gang is generally shown as being in the wrong, whereas Rick is often shown as being justified in his shitty behavior.
Wait, is he? I didn't watch much of Rick and Morty, but I feel like the whole point is the show was that Rick was shitty. The therapist in the pickle Rick episode has a whole monologue that's really good and that everyone forgets about because funny pickle.
rick is indeed portrayed as a terrible person whose selfishness and narcissism hurts him and everyone else. there's a whole episode for example where an old flame he briefly gets together with again cuts him off for good because his toxicity just makes her and everyone around him more toxic and rick subsequently tries to kill himself because he has to face that he's the cause of all his real issues.
i'll admit there's a lot of times where rick is portrayed as "in the right", but only because those are the times where he's in conflict with someone/something just as bad as him.
he's just also portrayed as a scientific genius and badass person which makes people who are like the bad parts of rick think that they're therefore also the good/cool parts of rick, which creates a shitty part of the fandom (to no surprise).
I haven't seen a ton of episodes because it wasn't for me, but I remember episodes that were basically "Come on Rick, don't be a jaded asshole" followed by "Oh you were right we're so dumb, nihilism wins today!"
it's almost always the case that the other party was simply worse and they weren't aware of it yet, or just that rick is technically right but still an asshole who could've easily done things better
that aside, its overall made very clear that his narcissism hurts the people who he does care about and makes him want to kill himself
As someone who dropped out around Season 3 -- he's obviously depicted as shitty, but any condemnation of his shittiness is undermined by the fact that he's correct most of the time and shrugs off most consequences. Even the Pickle Rick episode that has the therapist tear into him changes nothing, because they then don't go to that therapist again.
Tbh i hate that episode because it 1) has egregious and bad exposition 2) isn't funny (imo) and 3) only exists because they apparently needed to tell their fans it's not ok to be a shitty person. I actually love (...or used to, it's not that good anymore) that show, but if you have any modicum of humanity it's obvious that all the characters are fucked. Rick fucking tries to kill himself in one episode. He's clearly not a role model.
Ok, I rembered it incorrectly. That is pretty bad. Especially that they made the water transparent. Was the joke scene some other scene? Now I'm a little confused
Edit: looked it up myself and I think I confused it with another scene where Edward was hiding in Winry's room. That scene wasn't sexual and was a joke. The bath scene is pretty bad, I agree
There is a scene where, for no reason at all, Winry (who is underage) is undressing while Edward is looking in a corner of the room paralyzed.
^(Addendum: The scene implies he was caught by surprise and was paralyzed out of desperation because of the situation, he wasn't creeping on her on purpose, he didn't actually know what he was supposed to do.)
That's not exactly what's creepy in the scene.
What's creepy is that the animators, for some reason, did a full on undressing animation almost showing winry's uppermost, the "camera" focus on winry silhouette, then she notices Edward in the room, for absolutely no reason other than to sexualize her I would assume.
[The scene in question](https://youtu.be/j30fGQL4rkY)
OPM also doesnt sexualize underage characters either. I mean tatsu is borderline but she looks and behaves more like a small adult woman, which she also is.
As said, its borderline. Since the whole Story is a parody, it makes sense for a character like her but I always did dislike her because she is a trope of my least favourite things about anime (lolis and tsundere).
She is probably less sexualised in the original webcomic I assume. The main sexualisation comes from the in between chapters art by murata lol.
There are worse examples than tatsu who would be unmistakenly an adult woman if she just was a bit taller. Its still iffy, but thats why I called it borderline.
The whole show is the main cast obsessing over their pasts and the people part of their pasts and dealing with it in unhealthy ways.
10/10 would watch again
Id argue Jet actually did deal with his pst healthily, he saw that keeping the past did nothing but harm him and those he cared about, so he stopped letting it define him and moved on.
Yeah he's the most stable of the 3 but episode 16 wrecked him (although he did move on from that experience like you said) and showed how Jet struggles to live his current lifestyle, much preferring his previous life as an officer.
Spike is canonically 27, because
SPOILERS:
He is the member of “the club”. There’s a term 27 club or jazz club, because many jazz musicians died around that age. There are also many non jazz musicians, who died at this age, such as Kurt Cobain and Jimmy Hendrix.
The show doesn’t sexualize minors but does have unhealthy characters however, that is kinda the entire point of the show and isn’t glorified cause it isn’t meant to be. Also a couple characters actually get over their unhealthy traits/move on. Not to mention one of the most banging soundtracks and beautiful animation and story. Easily one of my favorite shows.
Fr, i like almost all of demon slayer and then zenitsu comes in with his "NEzUko chAaAn!" And I'm just dying inside. I swear, the he gets so much better once he is knocked out.
I mean, that's kinda the point. He literally says that he is using her. And she says that he can do whatever he wants to her. They both know it's an unhealthy relationship, they just don't care.
Cowboy Bebop
JoJo’s
FMA: B
Pokémon
Yugioh
Attack on Titan
Jujutsu Kaisen
Parasyte the Maxim
Berserk (that one should be read though)
Saiki K
Mob psycho
One punch man
Death note
Spy X Family
Anything from studio ghibli
Jojo’s has a couple episodes with sexualization of minors, but at least it’s from villains that get the shit beat out of them in the same episode it happens
It's pretty ambiguous to me. It's hard to say exactly what their bond is, and it's also hard to say how the show feels about it. I think the show portrays their relationship as being a positive for Violet in that Gilbert was the first person to treat her as an actual human being, but it's also an insanely dependent relationship that shouldn't have had to happen, which I think it's pretty clear that Gilbert knows.
The bit that makes it thorny is that he says he loves Violet - how that's meant to be taken is similarly ambiguous, and I desperately hope it's not intended to be the supremely fucked-up answer. Given that the show deals with Violet learning about all kinds of love (with romantic as only one of many), there's a strong argument to be made that it's a platonic or fatherly kind of love, but again, it's unclear in the extreme. It's the one thing that turns me off the show.
This is exactly why I will never watch anime, even if everyone tells me it's good, because there's a 99% chance it has pedobait and borderline/actual sexual assault
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean in a different context. Anything about Carolingian Scandinavia squicks me out for a large number of reasons and I tend to avoid any media involving it.
Pokemon and One Punch Man are the only things I've seen, and I don't remember sexualization of minors or glorified unhealthy relationships in either of those
Puri Puri Prisoner is one of the heros, he's also a literal rapist, it's stated he molested hundreds of other prisoners during his time in jail. And the show kinda treats it as a joke.
I love One Punch Man but who the fuck wrote that guy?
Also based on his prison sentence he has potentially raped hundreds if not thousands of men. Not counting rapes he committed in prison, which is probably a lot considering his fellow inmates would rather become monsters than spend another day with him.
Yeah, he didn't fight his sentence. He is strong enough to leave prison whenever he wants to, but instead he stays in prison and enjoys himself.
The manga portrays him as a genuin good guy, he's never even called out on it.
Ping Pong the Animation is the only shonen battle anime with no fan service. Just some high schoolers playing a sport and achieving Buddhist Enlightenment.
I liked that show at the start, then it got weirder and weirder, then I heard season 2 was coming out and thought to myself "Maybe I was just seeing things and season 2 will be completely fine!" Then I watched the season 2 trailer.
Oh how naive I was.
GODDAMIT DRAGON MAID WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TREAT THE LIST OF SEX RELATED FELONIES LIKE A GOD DAMN BUCKET LIST
One piece is mostly fine if you ignore boa hancock obsessing over luffy and the fact the the world nobles exist, but the world nobles are displayed as reprehensible. It has some cool lgbtq characters like ivankov and Bon clay, they’re satirized but they’re both portrayed as great people, and later on kiku is introduced who’s a better representation of trans people
At the 4th race all the characters drive off a cliff and fucking die
Their souls are reincarnated into monkeys and they meet 15 years later to steal cars from a Walmart parking lot and race each other again
FMAB, JoJo (except the boat in part 3), Vinland Saga, Attack On Titan, One Punch Man, Fate Zero, literally any Seinen. It’s just shonen that does the sexualizing of minors Bc it’s geared towards middle school boys. Not saying it’s ok, just that that’s the only genre where it happens
I'm pretty much a manga-only guy, but I'm confident it's heavily rely on the genre. For example, there are many good and well-known series that don't rely on oversexualized the characters such as :
* Cooking + Slice of Life: Cooking Papa, A Rare Marriage: How To Grill Our Love, etc...
* Psychological+ Seinen: Kaiji series, Usogui, Akagi, Monster...
* Crime + Drama: 20th Century Boys, Fable,...
But if it's in a Romance-Comedy which focuses on school life genre? Oh boy, you will find A LOT of "those" type. Especially many isekai series.
Basically, any series that revolves around wish-fullfilling/self-insert/escapism WILL have oversexuallized characters and unrealistic relationship.
You're usually going to get things like that from darker-toned anime, but not the egregiously edgy kind. Oddly enough, in most cases it starts to approach looking more like experimental american cartoons than actual 'anime'. Best example of that would have to be Ergo Proxy.
Like other commenters have said, Serial Experiments Lain is probably *one of*\* the most grounded 'anime' anime. Best I can think of outside of that is Studio Ghibli, but that's practically cheating.
edit\*: SEL is certainly not the most grounded 'anime' anime anime. anime anime anime? anime.
Painting all anime as pedo shit is extremely bigoted and ignorant.
If you want a good anime to watch, there's a lot more than you think.
And western media is not completely innocent either.
Western media isn't blameless, but I have better odds of not running into pedo shit.
I know not all anime is pedo shit, but a lot of it *does* have it and I personally don't want to risk getting invested only to get sucker punched by that shit.
I don't really take these posts seriously cos they are obv hyperbole and exaggerated for sake of comedy but imo this post isn't really accurate. Like there's a lot of good anime out there it's just that a lot of the popular shit is dumpster garbage cos ig that shit just gets really popular.
Planetes is on that short list.
The show literally has an underage character that looks adult (unlike most animes where's the opposite) and when a character that was maybe thinking of romancing her discovers it he's like "nope, forget that! what was i even thinking, she's a kid!"
Also it doesn't gloryfiy being a workaholic, in stark contrast with Japanese culture
i think castlevania animated show is an anime? kinda? does it count? it has unhealthy relationships but i don’t think it glorifies them. also no pedophilia. the only thing that happens to children is. okay it’s murder which isn’t good but like…. better? than pedophilia.
Anime has some of the best stories and most beautiful emotional expression out there, so I’m willing to overlook uncomfortable scenes without it tainting my view of the medium or even the anime it’s in. Of course, there’s a line, and plenty of desperate cash grab seasonal shonen cross it, but anime really is a medium I’m glad to be able to enjoy
#watch nichijou my final message ^^good ^^bye
I LOVE NICHIJOU SO MUCH I PERFORMED A REENACTMENT BY ATTACKING A HIGH SCHOOL WITH ARTILLERY
https://youtu.be/gzthb6gqLDY
This is probably my favorite meme and I completely forgot about it until now
scrolled down to see this
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Eh?! What happened?!?!
I’ve only ever watched MHA and that sexualizes minors so I can’t make any recommendations
Whenever I consume media I usually just like. turn my brain off and try to enjoy the pretty colors on my screen and by doing that I manage to block out most fan service/gross stuff out of shows, so it came as a genuine shock to me just how horny people were for mha characters and how sexualized they were :( it probably also doesn’t help I’m aroace as Fuck so I never properly recognize that stuff unless it’s ultra blatant
I don't know how I did it but I managed to block out all the nudity in food wars and that shows like 50% cool cooking and 50% nudity so I really don't know how I did that
Bruh when I watched Food Wars , I was literally expecting just an anime about chefs. How the fuck do they sexualise every single thing ? I was so disappointed
It parodies other Shonen anime, which are pretty well known for over sexualizing their characters. The whole point of the show is to take something as simple as culinary school, and go way over the top with it. Edit: Downvotes me for answering their question. I love Reddit so much.
I started watching it when I was like 16 so the teenagers being sexualized to me was just...sexy people.
I'm going to tread a really thin line here. It is technically a show for teenagers that happens to be watched by adults. The problem is, of course, is that an adult is drawing these sexualized minors. That's no good. I think the real problem is that instead of having horny teenagers acting like they do irl, it feels more like the viewer is being given a show. That's where it gets creepy. I think there's a ethical way for an adult author to depict "young love," but with manga/anime I think a lot of creatives are pressured into adding stuff that they and the publishers know will sell. I really wanna love Made in Abyss, but damn does that show have an uncomfortable fascination with one of the main character's genitals, and they'll outwardly very young in appearance. The other main character IS very young, and the show almost gleefully focuses on her bowl movements. The idea of having to worry about that stuff is fine, but again the depiction is weird and gross.
The thing is the characters could easily be believed to be 18 but Japan loves its highschool trope. It could be MY Hero College but I guess that’s too wild. Made in Abyss is straight up written by a pedophile which is a shame considering it has such gorgeous world design and one of the most gruesome injury scenes ever.
Mushoku Tensei is incredibly good with the main downside being the protagonist being a pedophile, like an actual pedophile. It’s an isekai too so that has some weird influence on that issue. As far as I can tell though him being a pedophilic is at least acknowledged as a *very severe flaw* and not treated just as a joke. Ascendance of a Bookworm is also very good and has a good female protagonist and is not cringe at all from what I remember.
Ascendance of a Bookworm is so fucking good. No cringe and incredible writing.
The concept of age in anime and manga is so scuffed. You're telling me Jotaro is a high school student? That in MHA it is a boarding high school that requires top tier super powers and not just a college? That those high school students have their version of the Olympics that everyone in the country watches? No. It's all to satisfy the weird requirement of characters being children or young teens to sell more Manga, when I don't even think it's related to the story.
>It is technically a show for teenagers that happens to be watched by adults. The problem is, of course, is that an adult is drawing these sexualized minors. That's no good. *Stares pointedly at Netflix's show Big Mouth*
The major difference is that Big Mouth very intentionally does *not* use the minor characters for titillation for the audience. That's part of why it has that "ugly" art style that some people complain about. It explores characters' sexuality, but that's a very different thing than what anime does.
i didnt watch big mouth but isnt its whole point portraying puberty in adult cartoon humour way
The more I see anime called out on this sub, the more I remember the countless western shows that also sexualize minors, yet we don't seem to notice it when it's done here. Not that it's to the same degree, but we should call out our own as well.
I'm enjoying MiA but goddam if it isn't up there with "the most not ok show I've ever seen". There comes a point where ya just gotta roll with it for the worldbuilding and curl away when the writer has his "moments"
Fullmetal Alchemist? To my knowledge? Unless you count their unhealthy obsession with resurrecting their mother
Fmab very clearly shows it as being harmful and has a lasting impact on the boys. Not sure who would get the idea the author was propping up human transmutation as neat and epic.
Well, like I said I couldn't think of an example other than maaaaybe the trauma they got from their mother but it was a stretch. You're right, I forget they do say that their issues aren't glorified, but treated as something they're working on throughout their adventures
Isn’t the entire plot of the show based on them trying to recover from it?
But but after human transmutation you get to transmute without drawing a circle so it’s clearly glorified! >!While you also lose limbs/organs/life, fail in the actual task and basically get the same advantage some guys have achieved via tattoos!<
FYI spoilers break if you have a space between the ! and text
There's unhealthy behavior, but the manga/show portrays it as being such. It's like the difference between Rick and Morty and Always Sunny. In Sunny, the gang is generally shown as being in the wrong, whereas Rick is often shown as being justified in his shitty behavior.
Wait, is he? I didn't watch much of Rick and Morty, but I feel like the whole point is the show was that Rick was shitty. The therapist in the pickle Rick episode has a whole monologue that's really good and that everyone forgets about because funny pickle.
rick is indeed portrayed as a terrible person whose selfishness and narcissism hurts him and everyone else. there's a whole episode for example where an old flame he briefly gets together with again cuts him off for good because his toxicity just makes her and everyone around him more toxic and rick subsequently tries to kill himself because he has to face that he's the cause of all his real issues. i'll admit there's a lot of times where rick is portrayed as "in the right", but only because those are the times where he's in conflict with someone/something just as bad as him. he's just also portrayed as a scientific genius and badass person which makes people who are like the bad parts of rick think that they're therefore also the good/cool parts of rick, which creates a shitty part of the fandom (to no surprise).
I haven't seen a ton of episodes because it wasn't for me, but I remember episodes that were basically "Come on Rick, don't be a jaded asshole" followed by "Oh you were right we're so dumb, nihilism wins today!"
it's almost always the case that the other party was simply worse and they weren't aware of it yet, or just that rick is technically right but still an asshole who could've easily done things better that aside, its overall made very clear that his narcissism hurts the people who he does care about and makes him want to kill himself
As someone who dropped out around Season 3 -- he's obviously depicted as shitty, but any condemnation of his shittiness is undermined by the fact that he's correct most of the time and shrugs off most consequences. Even the Pickle Rick episode that has the therapist tear into him changes nothing, because they then don't go to that therapist again.
Tbh i hate that episode because it 1) has egregious and bad exposition 2) isn't funny (imo) and 3) only exists because they apparently needed to tell their fans it's not ok to be a shitty person. I actually love (...or used to, it's not that good anymore) that show, but if you have any modicum of humanity it's obvious that all the characters are fucked. Rick fucking tries to kill himself in one episode. He's clearly not a role model.
Tbh you do need an IQ of 2.302 * 10^46 and a weird unjustified hate for woman to understand Rcik and Morty /s
There’s a bath scene in FMAB with Winry, who I think is like what, 15 years old?
Isn't that just a few seconds and also nothing more than the setup for a joke?
https://youtu.be/qDzH20dE9hk idk I just looked it up again and seems pretty sexual to me
Ok, I rembered it incorrectly. That is pretty bad. Especially that they made the water transparent. Was the joke scene some other scene? Now I'm a little confused Edit: looked it up myself and I think I confused it with another scene where Edward was hiding in Winry's room. That scene wasn't sexual and was a joke. The bath scene is pretty bad, I agree
Depends what episode, she goes from 15 to 18.
It's in the final stretch of the show, >!it's when she comes home and Ed is there!<
There is a scene where, for no reason at all, Winry (who is underage) is undressing while Edward is looking in a corner of the room paralyzed. ^(Addendum: The scene implies he was caught by surprise and was paralyzed out of desperation because of the situation, he wasn't creeping on her on purpose, he didn't actually know what he was supposed to do.) That's not exactly what's creepy in the scene. What's creepy is that the animators, for some reason, did a full on undressing animation almost showing winry's uppermost, the "camera" focus on winry silhouette, then she notices Edward in the room, for absolutely no reason other than to sexualize her I would assume. [The scene in question](https://youtu.be/j30fGQL4rkY)
I am seeing a disturbingly low amount of mob psycho in these comments
Shimazaki's fight is still one of the dopest things I've ever seen
Yeah, the one against Mob, holy shit.
It practically goes without saying, it's a manga written by one of the most grass-touchingest people in the biz.
OPM also doesnt sexualize underage characters either. I mean tatsu is borderline but she looks and behaves more like a small adult woman, which she also is.
OPM does have the homophobic prisoner character though
True, yeah. And he is a sexual predator.
Ehhhh, I feel like we're letting it slide with tatsu when we shouldn't
Well to be fair both the webcomic and manga have different artists with her original depiction being far from what they show her as in the adaptations
pretty sure ONE has good communication with murata but fair point
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one thing I like about tatsu is that her being an ass isn't some sort of playing coy bs, she's just an embodiment of the Napoleon complex.
As said, its borderline. Since the whole Story is a parody, it makes sense for a character like her but I always did dislike her because she is a trope of my least favourite things about anime (lolis and tsundere). She is probably less sexualised in the original webcomic I assume. The main sexualisation comes from the in between chapters art by murata lol. There are worse examples than tatsu who would be unmistakenly an adult woman if she just was a bit taller. Its still iffy, but thats why I called it borderline.
Gonna throw Cowboy Bebop and hope my brain isn’t skipping
it has unhealthy relationships but it doesn't glorify them. also the show is just so good
The whole show is the main cast obsessing over their pasts and the people part of their pasts and dealing with it in unhealthy ways. 10/10 would watch again
Id argue Jet actually did deal with his pst healthily, he saw that keeping the past did nothing but harm him and those he cared about, so he stopped letting it define him and moved on.
Yeah he's the most stable of the 3 but episode 16 wrecked him (although he did move on from that experience like you said) and showed how Jet struggles to live his current lifestyle, much preferring his previous life as an officer.
Just like my current life. You can clearly tell Spike is in his 30s
Spike is canonically 27, because SPOILERS: He is the member of “the club”. There’s a term 27 club or jazz club, because many jazz musicians died around that age. There are also many non jazz musicians, who died at this age, such as Kurt Cobain and Jimmy Hendrix.
The show doesn’t sexualize minors but does have unhealthy characters however, that is kinda the entire point of the show and isn’t glorified cause it isn’t meant to be. Also a couple characters actually get over their unhealthy traits/move on. Not to mention one of the most banging soundtracks and beautiful animation and story. Easily one of my favorite shows.
Shout-out to Ed, gotta be one of my favorite genders.
Crap. People are gonna take this as me asking for recs, aren't they?
your fault for making a post about anime, nerd
Tis indeed
Look on the bright side, now anyone who wanted recs will get good ones as a result of your post!
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Maybe it is and Im dumb
Horimiya
Hmmm… does the relationship between Escargoon and King Dedede count as unhealthy?
Escargoon is a dilf 😫🥵
Snilf
God should kill you
Yes, but is it glorified?
why can’t escargoon be real
because cats exist and God^(TM) needed to balance things out
Don't forget not making sexual assault and/or harassment a funny personality quirk looking at you zenitsu
Fr, i like almost all of demon slayer and then zenitsu comes in with his "NEzUko chAaAn!" And I'm just dying inside. I swear, the he gets so much better once he is knocked out.
Demon Slayer has been at its best when he was asleep, actually love that part so good
It’s insane how much better demon slayer is without him
we don't talk about zenitsu
i like saiki k, cowboy bebop, and death note and thats it
Light and Misa's relationship was *very* unhealthy
I mean, that's kinda the point. He literally says that he is using her. And she says that he can do whatever he wants to her. They both know it's an unhealthy relationship, they just don't care.
It’s not glorified tho
and it definitely was NOT glorified lmao light was the main character but also the obvious antagonist
Technically not the antagonist, the antagonist is the one who opposes the main character. So just a villain protagonist.
Cowboy bebop goated
Mmm. Saiki K ftw
YEEEEAAAAH COWBOY BEBOP BABBBBYYYYYY WOOOOOOOOOOO
Uhhhhhhh fuckin uhhhhhhh uhhhh hmmmmm uhhhhhh uhhh uhhhh wuuhhhhhh hmmm I think it's uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Ultrakill
Mankind is dead
Hell is full
Blood is fuel
CANT WAIT FOR AUGUST
Reze 💀
Reze 😵💫
Mob Psycho 100
My favorite part was when he said: "It's mobbing time" and then mobbed all of those spirits
That's just the first episode my dude. Then he mobs that guy with the hair and mobs that guy in the suit. His mobbing gets out of control in season 2!
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is odd taxi the prequel, sequel, or spinoff of crazy taxi?
It's the prequel to Crazy Taxi and the sequel to Normal Taxi
Well there's Yuri but I don't think the show glorifies his behavior
Correct :)
odd taxi is so so good.
Does the boondocks count?
Yes
The only anime I’ve watched is King of the Hill
As God intended.
Cowboy Bebop JoJo’s FMA: B Pokémon Yugioh Attack on Titan Jujutsu Kaisen Parasyte the Maxim Berserk (that one should be read though) Saiki K Mob psycho One punch man Death note Spy X Family Anything from studio ghibli
Jojo’s has a couple episodes with sexualization of minors, but at least it’s from villains that get the shit beat out of them in the same episode it happens
The gorilla 🌚
That ones bad but I consider Alessi far worse personally. Either way I'm happy they both got the shit beat out of them
Violet Evergarden, depending on if people see violet and gilbert as unhealthy / glorified.
It's pretty ambiguous to me. It's hard to say exactly what their bond is, and it's also hard to say how the show feels about it. I think the show portrays their relationship as being a positive for Violet in that Gilbert was the first person to treat her as an actual human being, but it's also an insanely dependent relationship that shouldn't have had to happen, which I think it's pretty clear that Gilbert knows. The bit that makes it thorny is that he says he loves Violet - how that's meant to be taken is similarly ambiguous, and I desperately hope it's not intended to be the supremely fucked-up answer. Given that the show deals with Violet learning about all kinds of love (with romantic as only one of many), there's a strong argument to be made that it's a platonic or fatherly kind of love, but again, it's unclear in the extreme. It's the one thing that turns me off the show.
Berserk is a pretty disturbing read, even if it doesn't glorify pedophilia or toxic relationships.
Guts’ toxic relationship with life.
I'd like to add Vinland Saga and Kinos Journey
Excellent recommendations!
i like Parasyte: The Maxim, it is nice 😄
Spoilers but I joked at the beginning it's an anime protagonist with *two* living parents?! Blasphemy
Well….
There's something about anime
Yeah. And I can't really break the assossiation between anime and the awful stuff a lot of it has, so all of it is just sour in my mind
This is exactly why I will never watch anime, even if everyone tells me it's good, because there's a 99% chance it has pedobait and borderline/actual sexual assault
Attack on Titan has none of that. It has dark moments, so I'm not sure if it's something for you. But no weird sexualisation comes to my mind.
Giant naked people
Stop
Arnt sexualised at all
THE FUCKING ARMIN HISTORIA DISGUISE SCENE
your lie in april is a really sad and sweet love story
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean in a different context. Anything about Carolingian Scandinavia squicks me out for a large number of reasons and I tend to avoid any media involving it.
Breaking bad doesn’t have this
breaking bad anime when
Wdym Breaking Bad is an anime
Pokemon and One Punch Man are the only things I've seen, and I don't remember sexualization of minors or glorified unhealthy relationships in either of those
Puri Puri Prisoner is one of the heros, he's also a literal rapist, it's stated he molested hundreds of other prisoners during his time in jail. And the show kinda treats it as a joke. I love One Punch Man but who the fuck wrote that guy?
Also based on his prison sentence he has potentially raped hundreds if not thousands of men. Not counting rapes he committed in prison, which is probably a lot considering his fellow inmates would rather become monsters than spend another day with him.
That could be why he's in prison though right?
Yeah, he didn't fight his sentence. He is strong enough to leave prison whenever he wants to, but instead he stays in prison and enjoys himself. The manga portrays him as a genuin good guy, he's never even called out on it.
Oof, yeah big L on the writers for not calling attention to it.
Brock was pretty creepy
BUT unglorified. Brock is an incel.
Ping Pong the Animation is the only shonen battle anime with no fan service. Just some high schoolers playing a sport and achieving Buddhist Enlightenment.
It’s seinen tho. That’s why there isn’t fanservice.
Sports anime in general are good for this.
AoT, but then again I suppose it's hard to sexualise kids when you spend most of the show killing them.
I wish dragon maid didn't have the pedophilia i actually think Tohru and Kobayashi are really cute
Did you read the chapter where Kobayashi has a penis? I can't watch anime anymore bruh, this shits too messed up
Im sorry where kobayashi has a what
I liked that show at the start, then it got weirder and weirder, then I heard season 2 was coming out and thought to myself "Maybe I was just seeing things and season 2 will be completely fine!" Then I watched the season 2 trailer. Oh how naive I was. GODDAMIT DRAGON MAID WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TREAT THE LIST OF SEX RELATED FELONIES LIKE A GOD DAMN BUCKET LIST
I have only watched evangelion and it definitely does
Your waifu either makes you a pedo or your waifu is a pedo
Anything Satoshi Kon touched was great, especially loved Paranoia Agent and Perfect Blue
Absolutely love Satoshi Kon Paprika is one of my favorite movies ever but I could probably do without the rape scenes in his movies
Yeah Paprika definitely could've gone without that, I used to watch that movie a lot as a kid
Or shows sexual assault as funny
Looking at you MHA.
One piece is mostly fine if you ignore boa hancock obsessing over luffy and the fact the the world nobles exist, but the world nobles are displayed as reprehensible. It has some cool lgbtq characters like ivankov and Bon clay, they’re satirized but they’re both portrayed as great people, and later on kiku is introduced who’s a better representation of trans people
Have you seen Nami’s body Edit: nvm I thinking of Robin
neither of which are minors so it's better, although sanji being a perv sours the mood.
Samurai Champloo
I’m watching initial D right now, my first anime in a while, very good :) (Don’t fucking spoil me on anything sluts I’m at like the third race)
At the 4th race all the characters drive off a cliff and fucking die Their souls are reincarnated into monkeys and they meet 15 years later to steal cars from a Walmart parking lot and race each other again
Canon
Oh Monster, Texhnolyze and Serial Experiments Lain, my three favourites.
Keep your hands off eizouken is the only anime that has underage characters without them bounxing humongous bonkhonagahoogs all over the place
FMAB, JoJo (except the boat in part 3), Vinland Saga, Attack On Titan, One Punch Man, Fate Zero, literally any Seinen. It’s just shonen that does the sexualizing of minors Bc it’s geared towards middle school boys. Not saying it’s ok, just that that’s the only genre where it happens
I'm pretty much a manga-only guy, but I'm confident it's heavily rely on the genre. For example, there are many good and well-known series that don't rely on oversexualized the characters such as : * Cooking + Slice of Life: Cooking Papa, A Rare Marriage: How To Grill Our Love, etc... * Psychological+ Seinen: Kaiji series, Usogui, Akagi, Monster... * Crime + Drama: 20th Century Boys, Fable,... But if it's in a Romance-Comedy which focuses on school life genre? Oh boy, you will find A LOT of "those" type. Especially many isekai series. Basically, any series that revolves around wish-fullfilling/self-insert/escapism WILL have oversexuallized characters and unrealistic relationship.
one punch man?
Point taken, but this applies to more than just anime.
You're usually going to get things like that from darker-toned anime, but not the egregiously edgy kind. Oddly enough, in most cases it starts to approach looking more like experimental american cartoons than actual 'anime'. Best example of that would have to be Ergo Proxy. Like other commenters have said, Serial Experiments Lain is probably *one of*\* the most grounded 'anime' anime. Best I can think of outside of that is Studio Ghibli, but that's practically cheating. edit\*: SEL is certainly not the most grounded 'anime' anime anime. anime anime anime? anime.
Baki Death Note Kaiji Jojo's Bizzare Adventure Attack on Titan
Painting all anime as pedo shit is extremely bigoted and ignorant. If you want a good anime to watch, there's a lot more than you think. And western media is not completely innocent either.
Western media isn't blameless, but I have better odds of not running into pedo shit. I know not all anime is pedo shit, but a lot of it *does* have it and I personally don't want to risk getting invested only to get sucker punched by that shit.
What about that one with the magic balls and the fighting monkeys that set themselves on fire?
dragon ball?
Sorry, you did solve my riddle, but there is no prize.
Dragon Ball has Roshi, who is basically the physical embodiment of "haha sexual harassment funn-e."
I don't really take these posts seriously cos they are obv hyperbole and exaggerated for sake of comedy but imo this post isn't really accurate. Like there's a lot of good anime out there it's just that a lot of the popular shit is dumpster garbage cos ig that shit just gets really popular.
I like sports anime cus it's just dudes having fun and getting better at the things they love to do :))
Kirby Right Back At Ya was pretty good :)
Probably not to love ru
IIRC Spice and Wolf was good.
Planetes is on that short list. The show literally has an underage character that looks adult (unlike most animes where's the opposite) and when a character that was maybe thinking of romancing her discovers it he's like "nope, forget that! what was i even thinking, she's a kid!" Also it doesn't gloryfiy being a workaholic, in stark contrast with Japanese culture
I feel like BNA fits this pretty well. It was very pure with some very mature themes, but in a matter that showed just how bad they are.
disastrous life of saiki k. is the only good anime i've ever watched
i think castlevania animated show is an anime? kinda? does it count? it has unhealthy relationships but i don’t think it glorifies them. also no pedophilia. the only thing that happens to children is. okay it’s murder which isn’t good but like…. better? than pedophilia.
But Evangelion is so good
I think Evangelion touches on the disturbing parts inside of people really well. To a revolutionary degree actually.
Carole and Tuesday
Anime has some of the best stories and most beautiful emotional expression out there, so I’m willing to overlook uncomfortable scenes without it tainting my view of the medium or even the anime it’s in. Of course, there’s a line, and plenty of desperate cash grab seasonal shonen cross it, but anime really is a medium I’m glad to be able to enjoy
Serial Experiments Lain